The accompanying drawing shows two warehouses on the north bank of the Chena River that were once owned by the Northern Commercial Company. N.C. Company was a powerhouse of Alaska commerce during the late...
When I wrote my post about construction of the Alaska Highway I mentioned the “Northern Staging Route,” the series of airfields through which military aircraft were ferried from the U.S. to the Soviet...
TVRR Engine No. 1 at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks When Falcon Joslin, the mastermind behind the Tanana Valley Railroad, began work on the line in 1904, he envisioned a railroad stretching from Fairbanks to...
FE Company machine shop as it looked in the early 1990s When you are in the resource development industry, the infrastructure to support your business needs to be in place before your operations begin....
The University of Alaska (established in 1915 as the Alaska College of Agriculture and School of Mines) sits on a ridge with a commanding view of the Tanana and Chena River flats. People...
I love back yards. They show so much about the true character of the house’s residents. Both of these photos show the back yard of the house at 303 Illinois Street, here is Fairbanks....
Coal bunkers as they looked in 1994 Fairbanks was never a coal-mining town, but coal did help Fairbanks recover from the lean times of the late 1910s and early 1920s. In 1910 about 11,000...
West Coast Grocery warehouse as it looked in early winter, 2011 The unpretentious metal-sided building at 318 Driveway Street (across from the News-Miner building) looks similar to the NC Company warehouse at the...
Desjardin-Stroecker farm as it looked in 1995 The Desjardin-Stroecker Farm, located at 2.5 mile on Farmer’s Loop Road, is one of the few remaining signs of Fairbanks, Alaska’s agricultural past (besides Creamer’s Dairy, which...
Old FE Company office building on Illinois Street in Fairbanks This drawing depicts the Fairbanks Exploration Company office building as it looked in 1992. This stately building, constructed in 1926, was the first...
